Real Estate Private Equity Institute for Research & Education
Institute Publications

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The Institute produces practitioner-oriented educational materials — monographs, case study collections, and research papers — intended to advance knowledge and professional education in real estate private equity.

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REPE Institute
Monograph · First Edition
Real Estate Private Equity
A Practitioner's Guide to Fund Structures, Investment Strategy, and Career Development
A comprehensive treatment of the real estate private equity industry, written for graduate students, career changers, and emerging professionals entering the field. The text integrates fund structure mechanics, deal-level analytics, and institutional career pathways into a single practitioner-oriented framework unavailable elsewhere in academic or professional literature.
Publisher
REPE Institute Press
Edition
First Edition, 2024
Format
Hardcover · Digital
Available
Amazon · Major Retailers
Chapter Overview
  • IThe REPE Industry: Participants, Structures & Scale
  • IIFund Formation: Raising Capital from Institutional LPs
  • IIIInvestment Strategies: Core Through Opportunistic
  • IVAcquisition Underwriting & Deal Execution
  • VCapital Stack Structuring & Debt Markets
  • VIDistribution Waterfalls & GP/LP Economics
  • VIIAsset Management & Value Creation
  • VIIIDisposition, Fund Performance & Attribution
  • IXCareers in REPE: Roles, Pathways & Preparation
  • XThe Industry Landscape: Firms, Strategies & Evolution

What practitioners are saying
An essential resource for anyone seeking to understand how institutional real estate private equity actually operates. The treatment of fund mechanics and deal economics is rigorous and practical in equal measure.
Senior Managing Director
Opportunistic REPE Platform, New York
I wish this existed when I was in business school. The career section alone is worth the price of the book — it maps the landscape in a way that no other resource does with this level of specificity.
Vice President, Acquisitions
Value-Add REPE Fund, Chicago
The waterfall and fund structure chapters are the clearest practitioner-level explanation I have encountered in print. Required reading for every MSRED student before entering the job market.
Faculty, Real Estate Finance
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